Kalat
| Kalat | |||||
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| Capital | Kalat | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State (17 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 189,783 km² | ||||
| population | 460,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | 1666 | ||||
| resolution | October 14, 1955 | ||||
| State religion: Islam ( Sunni ) Dynasty: Kambarani (Ahmadzai) |
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Kalat was a princely state of British India in what is now the Pakistani province of Balochistan . In 1941 the khanate had an area of 189,783 km² and 460,000 inhabitants.
The Muslim principality came into being in 1638 when the Kambarani clan established themselves as Walis in Kalat. Muhabat Khan (1734–49) was awarded the title Beglar Begi by Nader Shah in 1739 . In 1854, the then Khan of Kalat, Mir Nasir Khan II, signed a first protection treaty with Great Britain and in 1876 Kalat became a British protectorate . In 1879/80 Quetta and other areas in the north had to be ceded to the British (British Balochistan).
When the British granted Pakistan independence in 1947, Kalat initially became sovereign . It did not join Pakistan until March 31, 1948 and became a member of the Baluchistan States Union on October 3, 1952. On October 14, 1955, the khanate was dissolved.
See also
literature
- Encyclopaedia of Islam . 2nd edition, Leiden 1986 ff., Sv BALŪČISTĀN, ISBN 90-04-08114-3 .
- Imperial Gazetteer of India . 2nd edition, 26 vols., Oxford 1908–1931.
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd edition, New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19506-869-6 .